Behavioural economics : a very short introduction / Michelle Baddeley.

Traditionally economists have based their economic predictions on the assumption that humans are super-rational creatures, using the information we are given efficiently and generally making selfish decisions that work well for us as individuals. Economists also assume that we're doing the very...

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Main Author: Baddeley, Michelle, 1965- (Author)
Other title:Behavioral economics.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Very short introductions ; 505.
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